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Is Your Nose Getting Bigger?
As You Grow Older, the Nose Grows?
Not really, but it does appear that way. It does
not grow; but it drops, droops and elongates.
Here's why. The nose is subjected to two
"downward forces" over one's lifetime.
First, gravity. Not unlike other body
structures, particularly those that may be
deemed "attached", e.g. earlobes, breasts and
men's genitals, the nose is another victim of
gravity. By the fifth or sixth decade of life,
the skin and soft tissue underneath the skin
will have naturally stretched and thinned. Under
the unrelenting force of gravity, the nose hangs
down, looks longer and is misinterpreted as
having grown.
The second influence is one particular smile
muscle that, when contracting, visibly pulls the
tip of the nose downward. That depressor septi
muscle runs vertically from the upper lip to the
front part of the nose. In a good percentage of
men and women, such involuntary depression of
the tip of the nose will occur with every smile.
One cannot deliberately prevent that specific
muscle from contracting. Thus, the years of
smiling take their toll as the nose, subjected
to innumerable smiles over decades, suffers from
the same stretching and lengthening that gravity
fosters.
Because some seniors are perturbed by the
eldernose's longer, larger appearance, it is
appropriate to perform very conservative
elevation of the droopy nose to its original and
more youthful location in conjunction with
facelift and eyelid surgery.
Only those who have had rhinoplasty or cosmetic
nasal surgery escape their nose's downward
journey. As Nature heals the nose after such
surgery, a thin layer of internal scar tissue is
created. This tissue, stronger than the natural
internal tissue resists the forces of smiling
and gravity and prevents the nose from being
seen as "growing".
© Canadian Health Network. All rights reserved.
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